Self-marking dress-marker.



J. E. ACKERMAN.

SELF MARKING DRESS MARKER.

APPLICATION FILED MAR. 26, 1913.

Patented Jan. 19, 1915.

Inventor Attorneys THE NORRIS PETERS (70.. PHnTQLITHQ. WASHINOION. D c

JESSIE E. ACKERMAN, OF PORTLAND, OREGON.

SELF-MARKING DRESSJVIABKER.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented Jan. it 1915.

Application filed March 26, 1913. Serial No. 757,036.

To all whom it may concern.

Be it known that I, Jnssrn E. AOKERMAN, a citizen of the United States,residing at Portland, in the county of Multnomah and State of Oregon,have invented a new and useful Self-Marking Dress-Marker, of which thefollowing is a specification.

By way of explanation it may be stated that in marking heights upongarments, and particularly in determining the lengths of skirts, muchdifliculty has been experienced hitherto, by reason of the fact, that anoperator, in addition to the person upon whom the garment is fitted, hasbeen necessary, or, upon the other hand, it has been necessary for theperson upon whom the garment is being fitted, to assume a distorted andunnatural posture, in order to manipulate the chalk.

One object of the present invention is to provide a dress marker soconstructed that the operator, by a swinging movement of the leg or footand without stooping or otherwise changing the hang of the garment, mayplace a mark at the desired height, upon the skirt.

Another object of the invention is to provide a device, which, by aswinging movement of the leg or foot will make upon the skirt, two marksat a fixed height.

The invention aims, further, to provide a marker so constructed that ahorizontally swinging support, carrying the chalk holder will beaccessible to the operator, without stooping, whereby a horizontal markmay be placed upon any portion of the garment, longitudinally of thesame.

It is within the scope of the invention to improve generally, and toincrease the utility of, devices of that type to which the presentinvention appertains.

l/Vith the foregoing and other objects in view which will appear as thedescription proceeds, the invention resides in the combination andarrangement of parts and in the details of construction hereinafterdescribed and claimed, it being understood that changes in the preciseembodiment of invention herein disclosed can be made within the scope ofwhat is claimed without departing from the spirit of the invention.

In the drawing: Figure 1 is a perspective showing the dress marker inoperation; Fig. 2 is a perspective of the marker; Fig. 3 shows themarker in horizontal section,

parts being broken away; and Fig. l is a vertical section of the chalkholder.

In carrying out the invention there is provided a vertical support whichmay be of any desired form. In the present instance,'

the support is mounted to swing horizontally and may be a door, as shownat 1. Although the support 1 may be mounted to swing horizontally, thehorizontal swinging feature may be dispensed with, and

the support may be fixed. It is essential, primarily, that a support ofsome sort be provided, along which the mechanism hereinafter described,may be adjusted vertically. In the present instance, there is provided ayoke 2, adapted to be straddled upon the free outer edge of the support,the yoke :2 being provided in its intermediate portion with an extension3 constituting a brace. lnto one arm a of the yoke 2 is threaded a wingscrew 5, which, at its inner end, may be provided with a swiveled head6. The head 6 cooperates with the other arm 7 of the yoke 2 and forms aclamp, whereby the yoke may be held in any desired vertical positionalong the support 1. There is further provided a frame 8, theintermediate portion of which may be attached by rivets 9 or in anyother suitable manner to the yoke 2. The frame 8 comprises resilient,diverging arms 10, the arms lying in a common horizontal plane. The arms10 may be tapered toward their free ends, as indicated at 11.

The arms 10, adjacent their free ends, are provided with chalk holdingmeans. The chalk holding means may be of any desired form. As shown, butnot necessarily, each chalk holder comprises a loop 15, inclosing onearm 10, and curved jaws 12 adapted to engage the chalk. A clamp screw 14is journaled in the arm 10 and in one side of the loop 15, the screwbeing threaded into the other side of the loop.

In practical operation, the yoke 2 and the frame 8 are positioned at anydesired height along the support 1, by manipulating the screw 5.Presupposing that it is desired to mark the length of the skirt, the legor foot of the operator may be thrust outwardly, to carry a portion ofthe skirt between the pairs of chalk holders, whereupon, the arms 10will separate, two marks being made upon the skirt simultaneously, andat a common height.

The device herein disclosed is adapted not only to mark the length ofthe skirt, but to place marks at any heights upon portions of thegarment, other than the skirt. Under such circumstances, the operatormay turn her back to the support 1 and reach rearwardly and swing thesupport 1 horizontally, whereupon one or both of the pieces of chalkwill leave a mark upon the back of the garment or elsewhere thereon.

The device, if desired, may include a supplemental frame 25, althoughthis frame 25 is not essential and maybe omitted if desired. The frame25 includes a standard 26 which is vertically adjustable between theintermediate portion of the yoke 2 and the edge of the support 1, theyoke constituting means for holding the standard 26 in adjustedpositions. The standard 26 may be provided with an arm 27, similar tothe arm 10 and another arm indicated at 28, may or may not be employed.The arm 27 and the arm 28, when used, carry the chalk holders abovereferred to. The supplemental frame 25 permits the making of three orfour marks upon the garment, instead of two marks.

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed is 1. A dressmarker including yieldably co- Gopies of this patent may be obtained forfive cents each, by addressing the operating arms between which aportionof the dress may be thrust; chalk holders disposed in the samehorizontal plane on the arms; and means for supporting the arms.

2. A dress marker comprising a yoke;

yieldably coacting arms carried by the yoke; a

a supplemental frame mounted for adjustment in the yoke and including anarm; chalk holding means on the arms; and means for holding thesupplemental frame in adjusted positions with respect to the yoke.

3. In a skirt marker, a pair of opposed arms provided adjacent theirouter ends with chalk holders, the arms being resilient, whereby when aportion of a skirt is thrust between the chalk holders by the leg of anoperator, a plurality of marks will be made upon the skirt; and asupport engaging means with which the arms are connected, whereby botharms may operate in a common horizontal plane.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as my own, I have hereto afiixedmy signature in the presence of two witnesses.

JESSIE E. ACKERMAN.

Witnesses:

E. L. RIDGWAY, E. H. ALLEN.

Commissioner of Patents,

Washington, I). C.

